"The Republican teachers were brave and committed women who participated in the conquest of the rights of women and the modernization of education, based on the principles of democratic public school. This documentary by recreating a masterpiece of the era, and images of unreleased archive, discover the wonderful legacy that we have left the Republican teachers and has survived to this day"--FETE-UGT website.

The winner of the Best Documentary category at this year's Goya Awards, The Female Teachers Of The Republic (Las maestras de la República) focuses on the role of women in advancing public education in the spirit of equality and democratic access to schooling during the Spanish Second Republic (1931-1939). This was before the Civil War (1936-1939) and the subsequent dictatorship that halted the pioneering ideas they had been putting into practice. With archival footage, still photographs, and interviews, the film explores the experiences and ideals of those pioneers whose project was so savagely destroyed by the Spanish Civil War.